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Activists involved in the March 8 referendum on slot-machine gambling launched a counterattack this week with e-mail blasts and voter guides responding to the pari-mutuel industry that so far has dominated debate. The Broward County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations began this week e-mailing its 40,000 members to urge them to vote against slots. At the same time, the Christian Coalition printed 200,000 voter guides to distribute to area churches that detail the pros and cons of slots, in an effort to get religious conservatives to the polls. Leaders of the push to allow slots at the seven racetracks and jai-alai frontons in Broward and Miami-Dade counties suspect the grassroots...

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